We can debate the significance of the Mitchell report on baseball’s doping problems – whether it’s too little too late, lip service or a significant, culture-changing event that will clean up America’s pastime. Or somewhere in between.
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Reporter Scott Gutierrez hears town car drivers protest at the P-I Thursday. Mike Kane photo One after another, a parade of shiny Lincoln Town Cars circled the Seattle P-I office Thursday morning. Their drivers pulled over and shouted outside the front doors, angry about Tuesday’s story on drivers in their industry who aren’t licensed or who disobey the law.
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Puget Sound-area bicyclists know how to organize protests, from monthly romps through downtown at rush hour to two-wheeled demonstrations against controversial new arrivals to the transportation scene. Bicyclists are also great at organizing help.
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Our new trolley’s accidental acronym has been a much reported story locally and around the country. Seattle’s new South Lake Union Streetcar, or Trolley as some have decided to name her, began service today. In honor of her whirring motors and dinging bells I put together a slideshow of photos set to Ken Cofield’s song “Ride the S.L.U.T.
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“America is listening intently to what’s being said in this campaign,” Barack Obama told those gathered at the Showbox SoDo Tuesday. And what he says in his campaign includes a lot of talk about his campaign — from its perceived inclusion of people all over the spectrum and break with traditional politicking to its placement, as he tells it, at a moment of “fierce urgency” that calls for drastic change.
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